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Belis Fantanele Lake

judetul Cluj, Transilvania

Description

Belis Fantanele Lake is an artificial lake reservoir, located in Gilaului Mountains, in Cluj County, and was arranged between the years 1970-1974 with the purpose of hydropower, along the river Somesul Cald. The lake covers an area of 9.8 square kilometers and has a length of 13 kilometers, is located at an altitude of 990 meters, on its shore being situated the resort Belis-Fantanele.

Belis-Fantanele Lake is located in the west of Cluj County, in the north of Apuseni Mountains, at the contact area between Gilaului Mountains (east), Vladeasa Mountains (west) and Muntele Mare Mountains (south).

The inhabitants of the old parish Belis had to move from the actual location of the village between 1970-1974. Catune, as Milioan, Dadesti, Ples, Bolojesti or Giurcuta de Jos, are a thing of the past; only in the very dry summers when the lake water decreased greatly, one can see the ruins of abandoned houses of Moti, most notably the ruins of the former Giurcuta de Jos church.